Top 15 Rare and Strange Musical Instruments
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- Strange music instruments that you've probably never heard of! There are many different types of instruments we've heard of. Today we're focusing on the most rare instruments ever created.
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“Clarinets one of the most recognizable instruments” **shows an oboe**
I WAS JUST ABOUT TO COMMENT ABOUT THAT!!!
Beat me to it
I still can't believe it 😔
Was just about to comment this myself 😂
At least he only made that mistake in one clip (although the very next clip features two oboes and one clarinet, at least there _is_ a clarinet).
Edit: ...Although he then goes on to call an obvious bass clarinet variant a “soprano clarinet.”
Edit 2: The last little bit on that clarinet made it sound like an idling Supra 🤣
This guys mouth needs a mute button so we can actually hear the music he's trying to show us.
Yes
That's was basically what I was going to say.
Agreed
Totally what I was just thinking lol
Omg yes
I can’t believe the theremin is not in this list.
It stopped being weird once Santa Clara Vanguard used it
bro nah why is the cajon here
Good video but I wish the guy would have shut up long enough for me to hear what the instrument sounded like not 10 second clip that was played
Hear hear
Ikr
I agree. some unique instruments and I would have loved to hear them. Some I have never heard of.
@@bonnobloksma114 I wish...
crooklin Quite agree!
"Clarinets are one of the most recognizable instruments"
*Shows Oboe*
I gave up when the "recognisable" clarinet was an oboe and the B flat Clarinet was an E flat.
3:37 "Clarinets are one of the most recognizable instruments"
- Shows stock footage of an oboe. Nice
Kon'nichiwa, hajimemashite
As an oboist, I’m offended
I startled my wife when I yelled "that's an oboe!" Oy.
im like OH HELLL NAHHHHHHHHH im an oboe player and that is very offensive!!!
@@jacob1931 as an oboist - me too!
The "j" in cajón is pronounced closest to the 'h' in the word hat. It's not a cashon. It's spanish for big box or drawer.
Thank you for saying this, I thought everyone here would've just been clueless to it...
Why is it even here in the first place?
Its not rare at all. It's the first choise when a drum kit is not available.
And Its not even close to being rare
Not in Argentina 😊
@@luiscosta6951 what? Yes in Argentina. I'm Argentinean
It would have been great to hear the music but the narrator just wouldn’t stay quiet.
Exactly what I was thinking the entire time
Yeah my thoughts exactly!!!
Hey, if you're hiring, I'd love to be hired as your pronunciation checker
ca 'john'
When watching this video you will need to pull up 15 separate tabs to look for the sounds of the instruments yourself.
Great video but what's the point of making a video about instruments if you don't let us listen to the instruments without talking for a bit??
"Clarinets are one of the most recognisable instruments" ...zooms in on an oboe.
As others have said, you didn't leave barely a second here or there to hear the instruments.
"The clarinet is one of the world's most recognizable instruments...." Video shows close up of an oboe.
in the Philippines, we weirdly call the Cajon a "beatbox"
Well cajon means box so.. 🤷
3:39 If you’re gonna act like an expert on instruments maybe don’t say an oboes a clarinet
My goodness the amount of misinformation in this video is absolutely unacceptable. And not featuring the actually sounds is just bad form. All in all, a trash video.
You know what would have been great? Actually hearing a good demonstration of the sound, not a 3 second clip with the rest drown out by narration.
15 is too small a number. There's quite a few more instruments that should be mentioned including the blaster beam and the waterphone.
Years ago I saw (on TV) an instrument called an Octobass It looks like a 12 foot cello! The guy playing it had to stand on a kind of raised platform. They are very rare. I hear there are only 5 or 6 in the world. They are THE lowest pitched stringed instruments. If you ever hear one the musician is probably playing that two-note "shark theme" from the movie "Jaws."
The glass armonica concept was used to make the sound at the beginning of Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (although live performances used a keyboard).
Santour is the antecessor to both the cymbelon and hammered dulcimer. The hurdy gurdy is better known as the vielle -I know about a dozen players (nad it's very similar to the nyckelharpa). Big instruments are not actually all that unknown. I know several hardanger players, and a whole lot of cajon players (and it's pronounced "ca-hone", btw). The stick dulcimer is just another version of a mountain dulcimer. I also know a number of balalaika players. Hangs are not even a little bit rare - the original ones are, but there are many similar variants available.. Chapman sticks aren't slightly rare either. Glass armonicas aren't particularly hard to find either.
So, really not a particularly good video. The musical road was kinda coo - but I have heard of it.
It's actually pronounced santoor👏👏👏
Ah, on several points, well said, and darnit ya beat me to it! 😄 Perhaps you saved me seeing the rest of the vid, LOL, thanks. It's disappointing; I headed here after the Santour 😁 but was hoping the rest of the vid would be better than the first minute. 😳😯 Oh well...
It would be nice to actually hear them!
"the balalaika is noticeably similar to a guitar, but there are some obvious differences , there are 3 strings instead of 4"...
Octo contra-alto clarinet loool I love it.
Love the wine glasses as an instrument! I can do it with... one lol
1:24 we have this too, but its waaay bigger and it stands on legs and its called cimbal
I can’t believe that there is only one of that clarinet type of instrument in the world. I really wanted to learn it
I bet if you took that musical road at full chat in a Lambo, it would sound like the bedroom scene in Clockwork Orange!
I would have included the Theremin. Quite interesting hearing and watching someone play the instrument. Seems like its peak popularity was in 1950s sci-fi outer space flicks like the 1951 original, "The Day The Earth Stood" scored by Bernard Hermann for example.
Yeah, great “modern” instrument that is still very rare. I know of only one player that I have heard playing this in my lifetime.
I was about to comment about the Theremin as well. Should be included.
Santour is one of the main musical instrumemts in Iran. Many of my classmates and friends play it.
BRO! I WANTED TO HEAR THE INSTRUMENTS, NOT JUST ONLY YOUR VOICE!! DAMN!
I played the contra-bass clarinet in "Nutcracker," in high school. Luckily I have Bose speakers on my computer.
This feels like a nonmusician’s idea of a list of rare instruments. One more for the bone-headed mistake list: It’s mixolydian, not mixolodian.
Not even particularly accurate either. There are other scales that have mixolydian rather than just G Major.
Bern, Germany. ..😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Can't hear the instruments because the narrator NEVER SHUTS UP.
Me, a musician: ah yes, the glockenspiel.
Lol that’s just a hammer dulcimer:) I’ve wanted one for years:) the renaissance festival often has them for sale, and they’re beautiful:) (but VERY expensive!)
Cajon the J sounds like an H.
Unless you are in Argentina
"leading to the greatest sounding music...which we won't let you hear" LOL
I thought synchronised bumps were weird enough.
I never knew a clarinet was also an oboe
I know this is about instruments that have existed in the past and now very few of them are left, making them rare, but anyone else slightly disapointed that the marble machine by Wintergatan isn't here?
The Santora is very similar to the Hammered Dulcimer. The only real difference is the hammered dulcimer doesn't have multiple strings in groups like the santora does, just one string for each note.
"Clarinet is well known"
Shows am oboé
"Bern Germany"
Nice to see that switzerland's capital is beeing very much respected
Me: “oooh a cajon” **says the h sound**
Him: “CaJoNe”
I think our family drove along a kinda small section of musical road while going to Kentucky for a family trip to see the Mammoth Caves near Bowling Green..... I don't remember what the tune was, but we only became aware of the special road as we drove over it lol.
The santour is very common in Bavaria and Austria and is known as "Hackbrett", which is quite amusing because it means "chopping board".
Cajons are pretty popular
The last note played by the bass clarinet reminds me of an old Peterbilt rolling downhill on the Jacobs brake.
Imagine if Rammstein used the pyrophone
That’s coool (literally )
The Hang is a Swiss instrument of origin and the maker no longer sells them. It is most definitely not German as stated.
Are we just gonna not talk about how at 3:13 there is a guy with a flute up his butt
edit: also 3:39 that's not a clarinet that's an oboe
We have the hang instrument at our school, it's a whole different section in our music program
Most interesting. Thank you!
It would be amazing to create hydraulophones near bodies of water where the water is always being pumped by nature, such as waterfalls!
I LOVE the Luigi’s Mansion music from the clarinet.
That contra clarinet sounds impressive
"Instrument you have never head of"? Well, I have some records with hurdy-gurdy (e.g. by Patty Gurdy, Simon Wascher, and Göran Hallmarken), Hardanger fiddle, cajon, and/or Chapman stick (Tony Levin of King Crimson is the most famous player), and I have heard about most of the other instruments too. I assume that it is the presenter that never had heard about these instruments. The presenter talks about the clarinet and shows an oboe. Then mispronounces the Norwegian name Terje Lerstad. Furthermore, Bern is not a city in Germany, but the capital of Switzerland. When it comes to the glass armonica the video mostly shows glass harps and Franklin's glass armonica is only shown once. Check out the great video about the glass armonica on Rob Scallon's channel!
For glass harmonica the only one pictured was the one of Benjamin Franklin, the others are similar concept but different instrument, and different playing style.
But where was the finger-bowed electric zither, very beautiful quite rare. Or even rarer than a musical road, I believe there are 3 of those worldwide, the Stalacpipe Organ only one exists in the world in the Luray Caverns, in Luray, Virginia in the US, it is also currently the world's largest musical instrument.
What instrument do you play?
The hurdy gurdy
Those boxes are actually still popular. You can get them on Amazon
Have you checked out the stalactite organ in Luray Caverns in Virginia? The hammers strike the stalactites to create the music. Very other-worldly.
BE QUIET for a second so that we can HEAR the instrument!
This video makes me want to scream!!!
Cool video
From my pov i think the strangest instrument sounding is a computer randomized sounds
I made my own Hurdy Gurdy that is 3D printable
i love the hurdy gurdy and have been trying to get one for years
For everyone saying they showed an oboe not a clarinet, the clarinet is *next to the oboe.*
I have my Chapman Stick in my lap as I watch this.
I don't see the real life take of AniMusic's "Pipe Dream" that someone put together although it is strictly percussive from what I remember seeing of it
Saw a video on the musical road in california done by Tom Scott and how they misread the bluebrint making the piece out of tune.
Interesting, the santur looks pretty much exactly like the Hackbrett, which is common in Austrian folk-music.
I play santour and it sounds is great i love it❤🇮🇷🇮🇷
the Cajon is conventionally pronounced as "ca-hon"
I was waiting for the spoons to be mentioned. It's used in American folk music.
Cajón is pronounced like "cahon" the J in Spanish is pronounced like an H
And they aren't uncommon either.
yeah, that was super anoying
Like an spanish person, I'm offended
I thought number 15 was gonna be burger king foot lettuce.
I wish there was more actual sound from the instruments, instead of just video with a guy describing the sound. now i have to look up other videos just to see what they actually sound like. I kinda feel click-bated.
"Sea Organ" or "How to ruin a perfectly good beach"
The hurdy-gurdy is a favorite in my family.
You should've put all the names in the description
most rare instruments of all time
the cajon.
Riiight
The musical road was interesting, it's as if the road is a record, and the vehicle is a needle.
In the tenth century Christian churches used an instrument called the organistrum. This was a large instrument that required two people to operate properly. One person turned the crank wile the other pressed the keys. The organistrum was the progenitor of two instruments in subsequent centuries. The well known pipe organ and the symphonia. The symphonia was a smaller instrument that is operated by a single person. But you know the symphonia by the pejorative term, Hurdy-Gurdy.
A real Hurdy-Gurdy was a poor girl in the 1800s men would pay to dance with. The instrument of choice among the hurdy-gurdy girls was the symphonia. Ever sense then, the term hurdy-gurdy was contributed to the symphonia.
I think there’s a balalaika orchestra on Gotland, the big island in the middle of the Baltic
I need to know where that hurdy-gurdy painting came from
3:48 talks about clarinets and procedes to show footage of a bassoon
please let me know if i got that wrong
Would be nice to hear the instruments instead of the incessant talking.
Hang Drum is made in Bern like you said, Bern is located in Switzerland not Germany FYI
Cool, but forgot to mention the Golden Gate in San Francisco 💁♀️
Santoor is the Earliest member of Piano family...
Surprised to see the pipa listed as a rare/strange instrument! My wife plays and used to play professionally. It's not at all rare in Asia, and not all that strange either. The cajon (which was mispronounced) is not rare or strange either. Some of the others were interesting. Glad to see the hurdy gurdy mentioned. As others said, would've been nice to hear more of the sounds of the instruments.
pretty sure either the guy has HUGE hands or that ain't a normal clarinet next to the big-o.
God I love the santoor and the hurdy gurdy.
So disappointed! I watched the whole thing hoping to see my favorite "strange musical instrument "The Theremin". It's the only musical instrument that you play without touching it. I would have put it at #1.
What, no kantele? Must be too rare. 😂
3:42 I am so mad that is an oboe how dare you